Posted on 06/22/2006 1:44:05 PM PDT by RDTF
ANN ARBOR, MI – A three–judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to stay Federal District Judge Gordon Thompson’s order to remove the Mt. Soledad Cross pending an appeal. Thus, the City of San Diego must remove the Cross by August 1, 2006, or face fines of $5,000 per day thereafter. In its decision, however, the Ninth Circuit scheduled oral arguments on the matter for the week of October 16, 2006, weeks after the Cross is to be removed. The 43- foot Cross was erected in 1954 and currently is the centerpiece of a national memorial honoring American veterans of all wars. The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has been fighting to save the Cross since 2004 when it received information that the private memorial association operating the memorial site and the City were about to agree to settle the case, which had been on going for 15 years, by removing the Cross.
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If the cross has to leave that site, if at all possible it should be done while keeping it vertical, and transported that way to another site. Then a sign should be placed at the site telling the whole sordid story.
That sounds like a plan. I live in LA, but I'd make the trip.
You forgot Los Angeles - remember the cross that used to be on our crest?
I always thought Alan Colmes looked the part.
The cross should not be dropped. However citizens or the city may need to seriously consider the time honored American tradition of running corrupt officials out of town on a rail be they local or be they federal ones.
*They should sell the mountain to a private organization.
Like a church.*
Tens and tens of millions of dollars wouldn't begin to touch that property.
It is in the La Jolla area overlooking the ocean, & the bay. The homes around it are in the mega million $ range each.
The just put up a placard that says:
"A monument once stood here to salute the brave men and women who defended this country. They defeated our enemies abroad, but were defeated by enemies from within. They died in vain."
Vampires are slick and handsome.
Colmes has the ghoul thing going.
The LA guy (forget his name -- bald clintoon defender) -- some sort of demon.
I don't think Mayor Sanders and the City Attorney have the guts to do that, even though they would have the support of 80% of the voters. Sanders is supposed to be on Roger Hedgecocks radio show this afternoon to talk about the cross.
No, FRiend, it is VERY believable. VERY predictable.
The country has slid into apostasy, so more and more of this will happen. And worse.
The lefty behind this I believe lives in another part of the city.
and on Thomas Moore's feast day.
Case closed.
The Mayor supports the cross and has done what he can with in the law.
The city Atty is another story. Big ego lib
The Ninth Circuit is the most Democratic Circuit Court in the nation. 67% (16 out of 24) of its active judges were appointed by a Democratic President. The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit are the only other Democratic majority courts, each with 54% Democratic appointees.
The City's taking it to The Supremes.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20060622-1449-bn22cross.html
" Stop.... in the name of God, before your move our cross, think it over..."
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